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LifeLabs' Medical-Scientific team actively participates in industry events and opportunities to educate on medical laboratory science. The following is a list of published works and presentations by members of the LifeLabs team. For more information on the team or to view Medical contacts, click here.
Chemistry
Oral Presentation
Qualification, Verification, Validation and Uncertinty of Measurement in the Clinical Laboratory.
E.J. Dunn, S. Boss, G. Moses and L. Allen.
Canadian Society of Clinical Chemistyr (CSCC) Annual Conference, Saskatoon, Canada. June 2010
Calcium metabolism: Clinical and Analytical Matters
S. Boss
LifeLabs Analytical Workshop, Toronto, Ontario. April 2010
The Hemoglobinopathies: Whose Test is it Anyways?
A. MacFarlane and P. Catomeris
LifeLabs Analytical Workshop, Toronto, Ontario. April 2010
Case studies: unexpected results.
S. Boss
LifeLabs Analytical Workshop, Toronto, Ontario. October 2008
Uncertainty of Measurement.
S. Boss
LifeLabs Analytical Workshop, Toronto, Ontario. October 2008
Quality Control 101
P. Catomeris
LifeLabs Analytical Workshop, Toronto, Ontario. October 2008
Chemistry: Quality in Quantities.
S. Boss
Joint OSCC/QMPLS Scientific Symposium, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, November 2005.
Publication
Laboratory quality regulations and accreditation standards in Canada.
H. Li and K.Adeli
Clinical Biochemistry, 2009 Mar; 42(4-5):249–255.
Lectures
MNU Lipoproteins Seminar.
H. Li
First Year Medical School course, University of Toronto, February 2010.
MNU Lipoproteins Seminar.
H. Li
First Year Medical School course, University of Toronto, February 2009.
OAML Contribution
“Guidelines for Ordering Diagnostic Testing for Viral Hepatitis.”
P. Catomeris (Quality Assurance Committee Member)
Microbiology
Oral Presentation
Copmparison between BD Viper XTR System and GenProbe Tigris DTS System for the Detection of CT/GC in Urine Specimens and Genital Swabs
H.Almohri, S.Boss, S. Smith, D. Sealy, M. Kelly, G. Ritchie, J. Bittante, M. Wong
AMMI , Montreal 2011, April 9, 2011
Evaluation of WASP Automated Microbiology Specimens Processor for the Processing of Urine Specimens in a High Volume Laboratory
N. Sharma, H. Almohri, S. Smith, C. Bechard, P. Romano
AMMI, Montreal 2011, April 9, 2011
Evaluation of two chromogenic media for the detection of Group B Streptococcus from vaginal-rectal swabs.
DL Yamamura, N. Sharma, S. Smith, D. James, K. Purewal, D. Ladhani, C. Bechard, H. Almohri
26th International Congress of Chemotherapy and Infection, Toronto, Canada, June 2009.
Prevalence of Invasive Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus with reduced susceptibility or tolerance to vancomycin in 2006 and 2007 from four hospital systems in Ontario: Hamilton Health Sciences, St. Joseph’s Healthcare, William Osler and Niagara Health System.
D. Yamamura , L. Wilcox, C. Rutherford, P. Lyn, D. Richardson, C. Main, S. Dunnett, N. Morgan, L. Van Zuilen, G. Ricci, CH Lee.
Canadian Association for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (CACMID)/ Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease (AMMI) Canada Annual Conference, 2008.
Poster Presentation
Evaluation of Colorex chromogenic media and Bile-esculin azide agar with 6 μg vancomycin for the detection of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium.
H. Almohri, S. Smith, L Van Zuilen, F. Colosimo, DLR. Yamamura
26th International Congress of Chemotherapy and Infection ICC, Toronto, Canada, June 2009.
Comparison of 3 chromogenic agar: BBL CHROMagar Orientation (BC), CPS ID 3 Agar (BioMerieux) and CUTI (OXOID) to Andrades CLED (PML) for the diagnosis of urinary tract infections.
DLR Yamamura , T. Stacey-Works, D. James, L. Van Zuilen, LL Croteau, L. Cooper, F. Colosimo.
American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2007.
A Pilot Evaluation of Oxoid Rapid Methyl-α-D-Galactopyranosidase to Differentiate Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium from E. gallinarum.
N. Kreiswirth, D. Yamamura, P. Ralta, O. Imas, M. Lum, C. Larocque, S. Poutanen, F. Jamieson, A. McGeer, D. Low, B. M. Willey.
AMMI/CACMID Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2006.
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